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General Readers' Advisory Links

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Resources for Finding the Right Book

Resource Name URL Notes
AllReaders http://www.allreaders.com/ reviews/summaries in genres by author, title
Bookfinder http://www.bookfinder.com/ Search engine for books
Adventures in Storytelling: Genre Study from SL of IA http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/continuing-ed/genrestudy Collection of genre-specific information and links from a State Library of Iowa class
LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com Collective catalog of users' libraries, search by user contributed tags for readalikes
Overbooked http://www.overbooked.org/ Great place to look at booklists with lots of recommendations!
Readalike http://www.readalike.org/ Collection of reviewed authors by genre.  Also has incredible list of RA links (linked from front page)
Story Code http://www.storycode.com/ Users contribute tags, used to make recommendations for readalikes (Registration required, but free)
Sarah's Reference Warehouse: RA http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2008/08/sarahs-referenc.html (08-01-08) Comprehensive listing of free online resources (including this wiki!)
     

 

Series Management

  1. What's Next™: Books In Series Database from the Kent District Library (MI)

  2. Fantastic Fiction from Fantastic Fiction Limited, a company in the UK

  3. Juvenile Series and Sequels from the Mid-Continent Public Library (MO)

 

Print Resources

  • Adult Resources- including resouces on how to do Readers' Advisory
  • Teen Resources
  • Children's Resources

 

Readers Advisory Listserves

Listserve Name URL Notes
DorothyL http://www.dorothyl.com/ Mystery genre focus
Fiction_L http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html General RA discussion
RRA-L http://www.toad.net/~dolma/ Romance Readers Anonymous; Romance genre focus
SF-Lit

 

About Doing Readers Advisory

"Reader’s Advisory on the Web: Resources, Case Studies, and Community Involvement," Stephen Cohen. http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/ReadersAdvisoryOnline (accessed 1-24-10)

 

"Readers' Advisory," from Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Readers.27_Advisory (accessed 1-24-10).

 

"The Readers' Advisor Online" blog http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog/ (accessed 1-24-10).  Be sure to check out the tags "Cool RA Tools" and "Readers Advisory Tips" under Categories on the right-hand side.

 

"Genre Studies," from Adult Reading Round Table (ARRT).

http://www.arrtreads.org/genrestudy.htm (accessed 1-24-10)

 

Tools for keeping track of what you've read:

  1. Notebook
  2. Word or Excel
  3. Wiki
  4. GoodReads 
  5. LibraryThing
  6. Shelfari 

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